Identity Theft is a theft in which the thieves steal one person's personal identity information.
Most common identity thefts by which your personal information can be accessed are snatching your mobile phones and wallets. There are identity cards, credit or debit cards in your wallet, that have enough information about yourself to be accessed and can harm you financially.
Secondly, using your mobile phones on an open network can be also be harmful because in open network, your personal data can be accessed and can be used against you.
An identity thief could access your personal information while on public Wi-Fi at your neighborhood coffee shop
If you decide to use public Wi-Fi at your neighborhood coffee shop, you are exposing your information to an identity thief. A public Wi-Fi network is unencrypted and unsecured thereby exposing your vital information to an identity thief.
Identify theft is when a person uses your personal information without taking your permission.
Some of your personal information that can be used by identity thief includes
Identity thief uses this information for financial gains and it might be for the following reasons:
However, there are some measures you can still take to prevent an identity thief from stealing your information while on public Wi-Fi.
Some of the precautions you can take include
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